WEB BOHEMIAN
(Friday, November 23, 2012)
(1)- VASECTOMIES
DROP -- The number of vasectomies has dropped by more than half in ten
years, while abortions among older women have risen. Men reportedly worry over
the permanent form of contraception.
(2)- WHY? --
Scientists newly probe the nature of dark energy some 10 billion years into the
past. They hope help explain the strange force that appears to be driving the
Universe apart at an accelerating rate.
(3)- OUT
OF TOUCH -- The last discipline that seems likely to fail Lord Black of
Crossharbour, who rescued the Daily Telegraph in 1985 and built a global media
empire before his disgrace, is dialectics.
(4)- ONCE
OBSERVED BACK IN THE 1850s -- The
problem of establishing intellectual and aesthetic standards in an egalitarian
society was and remains a difficult and politically volatile one in American
culture.
(5)- 100
YEARS AGO AND BACK -- The aim a century ago was to introduce the young to
the accumulated wisdom of canonical texts of liberal thought. It was “the
Western tradition.” That changed and now we return to it.
(6)- FRENCH
PHILSOPHER JACQUES DERRIDA -- The word was abroad that this purveyor of
fashionable French gobbledegook was a charlatan and a nihilist, a man who
believed that anything could mean anything and…
(7)- NAMES --
More than most literary phenomena, names in fiction seem very straightforward
until you think about them. The simple question, ‘why does a name sound right?’
leads to a whole range of questions.
(8)- E-BOOKS
-- Amid the endless debates about the future of reading, there remains one
salient, yet often overlooked fact: Reading isn’t only a matter of our brains;
it’s something that we do with our bodies.
(9)- WHAT’S
FAIR? -- Fairness is not the be-all and end-all standard for justice, nor
is it the best measure of our social lives. There’s a tremendous amount of
conceptual confusion in our use of fairness.
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